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Turning off email notifications for Office 365 Groups
I used PowerShell to create 24 new groups and have used the various switches to essentially silence them. What I've noticed though is that the Unified Groups created via PowerShell do NOT get a SharePoint site created and associated with them.
So how can I create a bunch of new Sharepoint Sites and link those to the EXISTING groups (as opposed to creating a new Sharepoint Site and linking it to a new O365 group as many web guides say to do)?
Do the sites I create HAVE to be a modern site to be able to link to an O365 Group or can I use something like a Document Center site and link it to the corresponding existing O365 Group I created with PowerShell?
rpdodds Hey, there's always an associated SharePoint site created when creating a M365 group. See this for details about auto-provisioned services.
- Thanks for that Doc link - it's very informative. But... I think you'll find that if you use the New-UnifiedGroup command it doesn't actually create an associated Sharepoint Teamsite.
As evident by the 24 new groups I had and 0 new sites.
I ended up having to delete the groups and recreate them using Microsoft 365 Admin Center, then running my Set-UnifiedGroup PowerShell script to 'silence' all the groups. The SP sites now exist and are linked to the groups as expected.
For what it's worth, here's a quick Google search on the topic https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=new-unifiedgroup+does+not+create+sharepoint+site&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8rpdodds *Updated* I noticed this https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell/issues/3765 and I suppose it's what you experienced as well. But this should be able to work and I believe that either the associated services had not been fully provisioned, that is synchronized completely, or it could be a thing where one needs to actually access a service within the newly created group for it to populate. So it's all there, but could be "hidden". We have the process automated using Microsoft Graph.
